percales

The Ponemah Mill in Taftville first produced fine cottons such as percales, lawns and cambrics.

Norwich Bulletin Home RSS 2009

While Thompson and Farman-Farma do not claim to be fomenting a textile revolution, their carnal reds and splashy floral percales make for a vibrant, richly feminine line, and a bohemian turn away from the cold minimalism that still dominates much of the interiors terrain.

Designing Russia Alexandra Marshall 2011

The fabrics, mostly tightly woven, soft cotton percales, are all hand-printed in Alsace, France, and happily soak up pigments that are richer-than-rich, typical of old-fashioned tapestries.

Designing Russia Alexandra Marshall 2011

Lately a river sovereign and dandy, in fancy percales and patent leathers, he had become the roughest of rough-clad pioneers, in rusty slouch hat, flannel shirt, coarse trousers slopping half in and half out of the heavy cowskin boots Always something of a barbarian in love with the loose habit of unconvention, he went even further than others and became a sort of paragon of disarray.

Mark Twain: A Biography 2003

When a plant that was making diaper cloth had its market going away, it got onto something that was still going, percales or whatever which were going into dresses or garments or sheets or pillow cases.

Oral History Interview with Caesar Cone, January 7, 1983. Interview C-0003. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007) 1983

Strain and use for all dark calicoes, percales, and muslins.

The Ladies Book of Useful Information Compiled from many sources Anonymous

Los percales estampados y los blancos están todos prontos para el vapor (steamer) que partirá mañana.

Pitman's Commercial Spanish Grammar (2nd ed.) C. A. Toledano

The ticking clock, the shining range, the sunlight lying in clean-cut oblongs upon the bright linoleum, Justine's smoothly braided hair and crisp percales, all helped to form a picture wonderfully restful and reassuring in troubled days.

The Treasure Kathleen Thompson Norris 1923

Here and there a surrey, loaded with stout women in figured percales, and dusty, freckled children, started on its trip from Main Street back to some outlying ranch.

Martie, the Unconquered Kathleen Thompson Norris 1923

The Cloth Finishing establishment bleaches, starches, and calenders dimities, muslins, percales, and shirtings, and folds and wraps them for shipping.

Making Both Ends Meet The income and outlay of New York working girls Edith Wyatt 1915